WAIPAWA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9895, 23 January 1895, Page 4

WAIPAWA.

[PBOM OXTR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Jannary 22, 1895. Tho secretary of the county hospital reports as follows for the week;— 2l inpatients, ioolndlDg three females ; six males and one female received durlnc the week j six males discharged ; no deaths. The children belonging to the Kaikora Band of Hope having decided to hold a picnic, a movement was begun yesterday to give all the school children one also, and all parties have combined to make it a great success. Mr Britten has kindly given the use of the paddock at his farm, and to Mrs C, Clarke was confided the provisioning for 150 children to-morrow. Ab the Magistrate's Court to - day, before Messrs Johnson and Inglis, Jus-

tlces, a novel prcceedure took place under the latt3r part of section 99, Magistrate's Conrt Act. By leave of tbe S.M. service of a plaint was effected against an absconding debtor by Inserting an ad? vertisement twice in a local paper. The case was Cook v, Caunt Jeepereen, claim £18 03 9d. The facts being proved, and thab defendant bad left tbe district,

judgment was given for tho amount with Conrt costs £1 9s, advertisement) 14*, solicitor 153 61, witness 17s 4d. An affidavit was afterwards filed and an order made under section 137, calllna on a snbdebtor in whose hands was & quantity of woo', to show cause why an attachment should not be made, with further costs of £1 23. Mr F, 08. Loughnan- appeared for the plaintiff Jeremiah Doon was charged with the

theft of a counterpane, value 10', belong. iDg to ihe Empire Hotel. Defendant pleaded gnilty of taking it, but Bald be tound it lyinp on the ground by the railway line, Mrs Scrlnigeour proved thot the article with others was hang ia their drying ground behind the hotel, and afterwards was missing. Constables Rlordan and Broanaban's evidenco wob to the effect that they fonnd accused with a woman In a wbare at Brooklands, near

Arlington. They found the counterpane in a tent belonging to acouaed, bidden under a sheet placed on some hay on which they slept, Accused said it belonged to him, and he had found it In Haidlng'a plantation on the south side of ,the river. Defendant deeired to frlve ovidence on his own behalf, and mild he saw the cover lying on the gronnd behind the hotel, and picked It up and took it away. He had been charged with larceny at Danevirke and served fomteen days. Accused was ordered to be imprisoned for one month with bard labor in Napier gaol. Mary Ann Jones, alias Glover, the young woman tonnd in company with the last prisoner, was charged with vagrancy. The evidence showed that she bad been twice convicted of vagrancy and twice of drunkenness at Napier; that she left on 17 th January and went to Hastings, where abe stayed at an hotel with a man. On Saturday she reached Walpawo, where she took np wiiib another man, and after pursning an irregular coarse in W&lpawa she went and stayed with some swaggers In Hardlng'a plantation, and was seen drinking therewith several men. Then she was sees with JJoon, who she at first said was her husband, bub afterwards admitted he was not. She elected to give evidence on her own behalf, when she admitted having fallen into bad ways In Napier, bat stated that when she came ont of gaol ehe meant to tarn over a new leat. The matron of the refuge save her money that took her as far an Hastings, where she had to face the alternative ot walking the street all night or sleeping with a man she met ; that he tave her enough to roach Waipawa, and ere she fell in with Doon and stayed with him. She had iiiends she Baid at a place named and pleaded hard for one more chance to set herself right in a place where her reputation was unknown. The Bench convicted her and ordered her to be imprisoned for a short period, when a constable wonld see her off by train nnd co completely sever her from her associates.